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| Maldives to buy new homeland as sea levels rise (Canowindra News)
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| Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:52:02 GMT
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| THE Maldives will begin to divert a portion of the country's billion-dollar annual tourist revenue into buying a new homeland - possibly in Australia - as an insurance policy against climate change that threatens to turn the 300,000 islanders into environmental refugees, the country's first democratically elected president has said.
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| Our strategic interests lie with India: Maldives foreign minister (New Kerala)
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| Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:46:59 GMT
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| By Manish Chand, Male, Nov 17 : The Maldives' primary strategic interests lie with India and there is nothing that can change this plain fact, says the new foreign minister of the Indian Ocean country that installed a democratic regime last week after three decades of one-man rule.
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| Maldives seek to buy a new homeland (Guardian Unlimited)
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| Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:30:14 GMT
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| The Maldives will begin to divert a portion of the country's billion-dollar annual tourist revenue into buying a new homeland - as an insurance policy against climate change that threatens to turn the 300,000 islanders into environmental refugees, the country's first democratically elected president has told the Guardian. Mohamed Nasheed, who takes power officially tomorrow in the island's ...
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| The Last Days of Paradise (YaleGlobal Online)
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| Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:13:01 GMT
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| Rising seas threaten to overwhelm the Maldives, and the first democratically elected president plans to put together a sovereign wealth fund directed at finding a new, environmentally secure home for a population of more than 350,000. President Mohamed Nasheed is looking at Sri Lanka, India, Australia and other nations with climates similar to that of the Maldives, known for its beautiful ...
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